⁸ In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.

The flock detested^(A) me, and I grew weary of them

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me^(A) because I testify that its works are evil.^(B)

³⁴ Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify;^(A) others you will flog in your synagogues^(B) and pursue from town to town.^{(C) 35} And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel^(D) to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah,^(E) whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.^{(F) 36} Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.^(G)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,^(A) keep in mind that it hated me first.

¹⁴ “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’

³⁸ And,

²³ Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(A) they would not be guilty of sin.^(B) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(C) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[a](D)